Call: K3ZM
Operator(s):
Station: K3ZM
Added: 27/Feb/2011
Contest: CQ 160-METER CONTEST, SSB
Class: SINGLE OP HP
QTH: Virginia
Operating time: 30
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1280 State/Prov = 57 Countries = 67 Total Score = 602,888
Club:
Soapbox:
Achieved the coveted WAB award(insider's version) by working nephewPatrick,
K6AAX; K2DM; and K1ZM.
Thisyear's claimed score is 20% above mypersonal best, but others did better.
My friends at K1LZ checked in beforesunrise on Saturday and weresignificantly ahead. By the same timeSunday morning, they were up by 100Kpoints. Well done, LZ units! YouDEMilish. I expect some other bigscores, as well.
Worked 115 EU's thefirst night, then even more onSaturday night. Sunset opening onSaturday to EU produced little. Things picked up after midnight zulu. Total of 241 EU QSO's by the end. Thanks to all you guys for callingin.
Atmospheric noise cooperatedenough so that few contacts werehindered.
Perhaps some of the weakeststations were occasionally affected. Lots of West Coast contacts on thefirst night.
I actually was able tostay in the lower part of the band onFriday night.
However, I had to moveup to the nose-bleed section onSaturday night to run EU as theirsunrise approached. That is where themajority of my EU contacts took place. I had to go all the way up to 1981. While doing so, I passed manysubstantive US stations above 1900running EU. I now call this part ofthe band Club NT, named after ourContest Director, who encourages us tospread out. It certainly seems to becatching on. Say - why don't wehuddle up around 1980 instead ofalways living down on 1820? Theantennas are 10%
smaller, it isfarther from the AM Broadcast band,and the conditions are closer to thoseof 80 meters. Okay, justkidding.
About ten more countriesthan last year. Missed SD, VE5, VO2and the mystical VE8 stuff. Neverworked GM3 or GI3.
Special thanks tothe XYL for being such a good sportand letting me put up an enormoustower that is not quite but almostdirectly in the way of the view of thewater. I told her to think of it as atall, slender tree, planted by thearborists at Hudson ValleyTowers.
73,
Peter K3ZM